A medical harness designed by a North Wales businessman to help pregnant women combat acute pelvic pain has won a top industry innovation award.
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The Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) said ‘reduced budgets have placed increasing pressure on services providing assistance to older people’. Age Cymru said isolation was a daily reality, with 75,000 older people ‘always or often’ lonely and called for a ‘national conversation’ on the issue before loneliness becomes an epidemic.
MAMA Academy has partnered with The London Ambulance Service to create call cards to improve response times when transferring pregnant mothers to hospital with the aim of saving more babies’ lives.
Donna Ockenden has written to members of the NMC to provide an important update covering significant developments in the world of midwifery (including supervision and regulation, statutory midwifery committee and indemnity arrangements)
Further media coverage of the issues surrounding Tawel Fan in response to the Ockenden report.
Darren Millar AM, Shadow Minister for Health asked the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport for an update on the work of HASCAS and Donna Ockenden following the Ockenden report on Tawel Fan?
Vaughan Gething, Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport, has written to the families involved in the Tawel Fan investigation to outline next steps and about the introduction of an independent oversight panel.
The London Maternity Clinical Network have produced their latest highlight report. It covers headlines and activities about the Clinical Network Working Groups along with an update on the Maternity Transformation Programme.
Campaigners have accused a health board of risking patient safety and failing to learn lessons from a mental health ward scandal and staff have not been cooperating with investigators.
An intervention package to reduce obstetric anal sphincter injury (OASI) during childbirth is being rolled out across 16 maternity units across England, Scotland and Wales. The aim is to reduce overall OASI rates through an increase in the use of standardised prevention practice, following a rise in these injuries in England over the past decade.
The Ockenden Report update: Latest indications are that the work is continuing to progress at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and is due to be completed this spring or early summer. The Health Board is due to discuss the progress of the investigation and the independent governance review over the coming weeks.
THE number of patients developing potentially fatal infections in North Wales hospitals is still too high, according to latest figures.
In 2014 and again last year an independent expert said significant improvements had been made but further steps were needed to prevent a similar outbreak.